User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Rise of the Mercenaries/@comment-3135907-20110716152408/@comment-3135907-20110716153505

A skiff is floating alongside the ship. A rat swings across on a headrope laughing maniacally and swinging a cutlass above his head. "Ahoy, come ter Cap'n Skrab, maties! Chaaaaarge!!!" Four more beasts leap aboard following Skrab; Harid, Sharky and Slingoe. Kabber draws his sword and prepares to guard the ship. Floj prepares to guard the ship from a distance. Once up in the mast, Floj pulls out a shortbow and begins firing arrows as fast as he can notch them to the waxen string. Sharky takes an arrow through his swordpaw and he drops his cutlass and clutches his bleeding paw. Slingoe leaps forward and is abotu to despatch Kabber when Lubbag and Klefat, the stoat and rat on guard duty for the day join the fight. Skrab quickly motions with his paw and Tungry and Thrid also leap aboard. Outnumbered sorely, the two under Kabber are backed to the rail. Lubbag jumps overboard in fear, and the weasel Kabber loses his tail to Thrid's scimitar. He falls backward into the water with a splash. Klefat drops his weapon and makes to jump as well but is grabbed from behind by Slingoe and thrown heavily to the deck. Floj climbs out on a mast spar and despatches Slingoe with an arrow, then leaps. He falls twenty-five feet into the open sea and swims for the island.